For over 30 years, the Telly Awards has been the premier award honoring outstanding TV commercials and programs, the finest video and film productions, and web videos and films. With nearly 11,000 entries from all 50 states and foreign countries, a prestigious judging panel of over 500 accomplished industry professionals uphold the historical standard of excellence that …
James Balog, a regular faculty member at the Summit Workshops, continues to draw accolades for his Extreme Ice Survey — documenting the world’s shrinking glaciers. With remote cameras positioned at major glaciers over the world supplied by Nikon, his project was the subject of a documentary film, “Chasing Ice,” selected and shown at the Sundance …
On Tuesday, New York Magazine announced that it had signed longtime contributor and well-known photojournalist Christopher Anderson as the weekly magazine’s first-ever “photographer-in-residence” according to APhotoEditor.com Anderson attended the Summit Workshop back in the mid-1990’s and from there made connections to launch his photography career. He also returned as a faculty member in the mid-2000s. In a …
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Whether it’s Getty, AP, Reuters, or freelance, photographers hope for that emotional picture that pulls at the heart strings of the viewers. Take a look at the 45 most powerful images of 2011 via Buzzfeed. [nggallery id=6]
They went by several different names. James Atherton was a “news photographer” while Tim Hetherington preferred “image maker.” We just call them photographers. They make images, yes, often connected with the news. But they actually record the world–in all of its beauty, horror, pain and confusion–at a particular time and place. For three of the …
Outstanding achievement. Two of many words which could be used to describe Rich Clarkson’s illustrious career in photography. This Monday Clarkson was awarded the Outstanding Achievement award for sports photography from the Lucie Foundation. The Lucie Awards, for those who may not know, were founded to honor the greatest achievements in photography from around the …
Matt Slaby attended the Summit workshop shortly after receiving his law degree — and decided photography was more his calling. His latest spread appears in the December 5 issue of Time magazine with a major display of his story coverage — Occupy LA. James Hill, one of our faculty members who lives in Moscow and …
The images that have cycled through the pages of National Geographic throughout the years are some of the best in the world. You could even say they have a “small, selective society” from the NG pages (I’m sure there is a secret handshake too…). Just recently, the Photographer’s Advisory Board for National Geographic put together …
In honor of Veterans’ Day, here is a multimedia slideshow from our 2006 book, ‘Where Valor Rests: Arlington National Cemetery”. Like Arlington National Cemetery itself, this multimedia show and its accompanied book arose from a desire to memorialize the valiant heroes who die in service to the nation. Thank you to all those who serve …
The latest in the series of Sports Illustrated coffee table books, just published, is “The Sports Illustrated College Basketball Book” which features many of the instructors at the Sports Photography Workshop. Probably the largest number of pictures came from the files of Rich Clarkson dating back into the 1950s when he was a college student …
